Bad Weddings and Wedding Trends - sperg about weddings here

One of our family friends didn't let her bridesmaids wear makeup at her wedding, because she wanted to be the "centrepiece" of all the photos (so basically didn't want to be upstaged.) I didn't go to that wedding but I thought it was funny when I heard it.
Sounds like a bridezilla to me. Reminds me of an incident I heard of where a bridezilla demanded that a pregnant bridesmaid get an abortion so she wouldn't take all the attention away from the bride.
 
Sounds like a bridezilla to me. Reminds me of an incident I heard of where a bridezilla demanded that a pregnant bridesmaid get an abortion so she wouldn't take all the attention away from the bride.
There's an alternative way to solve that, by not making the pregnant lady as the bridesmaid.
 
I hate those mock-Elie Saab dresses that every Arab chick with a lot of money and not a lot of taste tends to wear
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Can this trend die already?
I don't think those look too bad, I love the last bride. Sometimes some modesty is good in a wedding dress.
 
One thing a lot of people do to save money is to diy stuff thinking it would be less expensive not realizing that the time spent making some of these things is quite costly, especially if you have a job and are prone to procrastinating. If you are having a 2 year engagement and have excellent time management? Perfect, but some people seem to underestimate how much time diy takes or they try to do everything diy rather than the crafts that they are good at or even worse, they aren't even remotely the artsy creative types and most of their stuff ends up sucking.

Also, diying florals with real flowers is sure to end in a disaster because flowers are very delicate and you have to know what you are doing so they don't wilt before they are ready to be used.

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The thing is, the only thing the guests really notice (assuming there's no gypsy-like fights at the wedding and no one drops dead) is a) did they get plenty to eat, b) did they have to wait around bored for a long time and c) were they cold. If you organise the day so people are mostly sitting down somewhere warm eating most of the time, everyone will say it was a great wedding. They also usually enjoy a wee dance in the evening. Every time you hear a guest slate a wedding, it always comes down to "we were hungry/cold/bored/all of the above".

If you really want to get people to blow their top though, get a throwaway and ask any advice subreddit if you should have children at your wedding or not. This is for some reason a massive controversy in the last.... decade? fifteen years? when I don't seem to recall people giving too many fucks either way beforehand. Is it because more weddings now are destination/overnight weddings?
 
The thing is, the only thing the guests really notice (assuming there's no gypsy-like fights at the wedding and no one drops dead) is a) did they get plenty to eat, b) did they have to wait around bored for a long time and c) were they cold. If you organise the day so people are mostly sitting down somewhere warm eating most of the time, everyone will say it was a great wedding. They also usually enjoy a wee dance in the evening. Every time you hear a guest slate a wedding, it always comes down to "we were hungry/cold/bored/all of the above".

If you really want to get people to blow their top though, get a throwaway and ask any advice subreddit if you should have children at your wedding or not. This is for some reason a massive controversy in the last.... decade? fifteen years? when I don't seem to recall people giving too many fucks either way beforehand. Is it because more weddings now are destination/overnight weddings?
God, yeah, there is a lot of debate about children normally it is fine people will get mad and say you are heartless that you are excluding the person with the newborn baby who is breastfeeding like you are a terrible monster even though, the parents would probably be stressed out with the new baby already and the last thing they would need is a wedding. And then there are the people who don't want their kids or their kid siblings to participate in the wedding or be there that is another thing you will be looked at as heartless if you do that.

I also see this a lot with autistic and developmentally disabled guests as well and whether or not you should exclude them or not which... well... most autistic people hate those types of environments so they probably would be happy if you just don't invite them. I mean, for a lot of higher functioning people who do end up marrying, they seem to have less traditional weddings or elope or something.

I mean, I can kind of see why people would want childfree weddings, they don't necessarily have to be child haters or bridezillas who don't want any interruptions at their weddings at all and hate the idea of screaming babies and toddlers ruining everything. A lot of times it has to do with the fact that inviting all the kids means that the guest list will increase by quite a lot in the cases of a lot of families and they want to save money.
 
It was My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and featured a truly remarkable episode where the young teenage bridesmaids at a wedding explained their fear of being 'caught' by a large drunken gyppo male at the wedding,. Due to insane tinker purity culture, if the girl was 'caught', i.e. sexually assaulted without her consent, her family would insist she marry the gyppo who assaulted her. They wouldn't even go to the toilet during the wedding for fear. Absolutely incredible.
Honestly, the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title besides that godawful 90 Day Fiancé wedding where Omar and Avery got married in what looked like an AA meeting room while making the already covered up Avery put on what was essentially a tarp, was this spectacularly trashy wedding brawl from that show.

”When the best man landed on my wedding cake..."-Honey, you don't gotta say anymore.
 
Honestly, the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title besides that godawful 90 Day Fiancé wedding where Omar and Avery got married in what looked like an AA meeting room while making the already covered up Avery put on what was essentially a tarp, was this spectacularly trashy wedding brawl from that show.

”When the best man landed on my wedding cake..."-Honey, you don't gotta say anymore.
Geez, I remember that. Wedding reality shows are kind of my guilty pleasure. I have pretty much seen just about every episode of Say Yes to the Dress plus the spin-offs. Say Yes to the Dress probably has to be my favorite wedding show even though I know in reality Kleinfeld's is a lot smaller and a lot less glamorous as it is on the show. What it did teach me was not to bring a lot of people to try on dresses and only people who will build you up rather than tear you down.
 
Not sure if it goes here or not, I know I MAY have mentioned it in the Lori Lewd thread but proposals during anime masquerades (AKA the performance competition) or conventions is just really weird?

I've competed a few times (even if I suck I just enjoy doing it for fun) for maybe 3 years in a row, and EACH YEAR someone has popped the question in front of like maybe 500-700 cosplayers in a room.
Or if somebody wasn't getting married, they did this WHILE THE JUDGES THINK, LET'S WATCH A JAPANESE WEDDING CEREMONY.
It wasn't anything like a real one as far as I knew, but it felt like such a cringe ass way to pass the time.

I have no idea if said couples are together anymore, but both couples I do remember were
- A Sora and Kairi ham beast duo dancing to the newest kh3 song "face my fears" and when the DROP BEAT happened Sora popped the question
- Some random Pokémon trainer and Giovani ham beast duo. I dunno what their skit was, but it was some sort of talking one and the guy popped the question.

I do remember this clip from this REALLY old trashy realty TV show called Heroes of Cosplay, where at the end of one of the episodes, the guy proposed to his girlfriend in front of an entire panel on TV.

I'm an anime spurge as much as the next time, and I get the sentiment behind wanting to propose there, but to me it just feels a bit too awkward but that's just me maybe.
 
Honestly, the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title besides that godawful 90 Day Fiancé wedding where Omar and Avery got married in what looked like an AA meeting room while making the already covered up Avery put on what was essentially a tarp, was this spectacularly trashy wedding brawl from that show.

”When the best man landed on my wedding cake..."-Honey, you don't gotta say anymore.
All I could think of watching that was "Are you not entertained?"

Yes, yes I am. Greatly.
 
Hello. Sorry for not posting this sooner but the site went retarded and then real life happened but there's more or less the highlight reel of the shenanigans that happened. This most likely isn't everything, but the things I can ultimately remember.

I hope you enjoy the tale.

•now one thing to note about the bride/lolcow is that she has 2 young children. One from a previous relationship(older) and one from the soon to be husband(younger). This is important.

•the wedding got delayed because the grooms mother "forgot" the older child's dress at her house while still being able to remember the dresses for the children she's the biological grandmother of.

•the bridal party wanted to take photos outside before the storm so that what they do to bide time (the oldest is in her pajamas while her sister, cousin(third flower girl), and everyone else is in their wedding attire. These photos are plastered all over the internet now and for all eternity. Groom and his lackeys are nowhere to be seen so it's just the women.

•storm is starting to roll in, photos get wrapped up, and we all head inside the double wide trailer. It is cramped as there are about 40-50 people

• bride/lolcow is upset at the fact that her MIL still isn't there with the dress for her daughter even though the MIL made a huge deal for weeks about being responsible for the dresses meant for the flower girls.

•lolcow changed all of the girls dresses to the ones that were meant for the reception, mostly because they weren't white and therefore less likely to be stained by said young children (why wasn't this done in the beginning, all of the children could have looked nice for the photos).

•one of the bridesmaids has an "service dog" that I would bet money on is not trained one bit and probably couldn't do the job in the first place because it was the size of a Guinea pig. This poor dog was also repeatedly stepped on throughout this event.

• it was decided to move forward with the wedding. We're nearly an hour delayed, MIL still isn't here, and the groom who is probably close to the size of Chantal might have died on the couch he hasn't moved from since who knows when.

•chair arrangement in a double wide is cramped but doable. The storm begins to pick up

•MIL shows up with the dress, the day is saved by her and her alone! Except the dress -made of white tulle and satin- is ruined beyond repair with dirt, leaves, and twigs and it's most likely torn in places. It honestly looked like she tied it to her car and dragged it behind her as she drove.

•everyone silently judges while our lolcow/bride tells her MIL that the girls are already in there dresses and that the dress she brought can be put away because her daughter isn't wearing it. MIL is so infuriated that she throws the dirty dress on the ground and runs outside to sulk in the upcoming downpour.

•this kind of behavior is apparently very common with MIL. I feel bad for the children

•somehow the groom is still alive and rather than confront his mother, getting the ceremony over with sounds better.

•the ceremony the preacher man directed was quite nice. I was shocked and impressed. It probably would have been better if the groom didn't have to sit in a chair though.

•ceremony is over, reception is underway. The dude who owns the land and trailer this wedding took place on was prepared for the storm and already had his porch prepared so he can still grill even if God is trying to flood the area (the storm was heavy and lasted several hours). I wouldn't be surprised if he was prepared for the zombie apocalypse with how on top of everything he was.

•MIL comes back in soaked. She missed her own son's wedding to sit in the rain and pout but this is somehow everyone else's fault.
She is given towels and even a change of clothes that surprisingly fit (not as fat as her son but still large)

•immediately demands to see "her baby" which ended up being the younger daughter as she shoots daggers at the older child as if she's the cause of everything wrong with the world at large (I feel bad for these kids).

•food gets served and surprisingly there's enough food to go around (last time I went to a wedding that had a bunch of fat people attend I ended up splitting half a breadstick with my cousin because that was what was left).

•small child wanders up to me overstimulated because of the amount of people, scared because he can't find his mom and has probably been almost trampled, and starving. I ended up feeding the poor thing from my plate. Child ended up being the lolcow/bride's nephew. She didn't know where her sister was either but thanked me for taking care of the kid (who was nearly 2) and then wanders off leaving me with the child (wtf).

•high school truly never ends as a majority of the people here that are in my age group bring up bullshit drama where this is neither the time or the place to do so. Also, a lot of talk about dead people. I haven't heard this much talk about the dead even at funerals, wonder if it's a sign. Meanwhile, the groom is back on the couch where he stays for the remainder of my time there. I spend half of the reception wondering if the dude has more than more foot in the grave.

•I meet the mother of the small child I fed, her life is even more of a trainwreck than her sister's and I didn't think that was possible.

•the rain lightens up and I make my escape.

I also want to state that these people are now expecting yet another child in March. I'm shocked in more ways than one.
 

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"Forgetful" granny has snubbed the kid since her sister was born so instead of confront the bitch about her behavior that can cause severe and permanent issues if this continues, they just decided to get pregnant again (they're hoping for a boy this time, god help them).

Oh. And the trainwreck sister that more or less abandoned her 2 year old at the reception forgot that she even brought him in the first place and left him there. So that had to be fun to deal with, glad I left before that occurred.
 
Feel free to give me hats but I can't stand it when people take their issues out on the kids. I can only imagine how uncomfortable that poor oldest daughter felt. There's always that one relative that everyone is way too accommodating for.
Or punish children for something they can't change or even help. It's counter productive and the only thing it does is cause the child in question a lot of grief (hell, this woman is now her only living grandparent and they live close to one another).

I pulled the bride (who is honestly a personal lolcow of mine) and I said my peace about the situation, because frankly she and her new husband are allowing it to continue and while I was accused of trying to ruin "her big day", I would think that the wellbeing of her kid would take priority over anything and everything else.

I don't really have a horse in this race either way but it shouldn't be difficult to stand up for your own kid.
 
Also, I would reccommend if you want a goldmine of content to check out Off Beat Bride It is a wedding blog dedicated to special snowflakes getting married and is full of stuff like this:

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I am sure if you ask Pedro who owns the Mexican restaurant in town to cater your wedding, he would be more than delighted to do business rather than scream cultural appropriation at you. I am 99% sure that person who wrote this isn't Hispanic.
White Hispanic here. I will appropriate the shit out of whatever i want. I had chinese food at my rehearsal dinner. White saviors are boring trash.
 
I honestly feel like COVID kind of made it clear who only cared about the wedding and who mostly cared about the committment. The ones who cared about the actual marriage, didn't care if the laws and restrictions meant their wedding plans changed, they were just happy to get married even if they eloped, had their wedding outside as opposed to inside, etc. while the people who only wanted the party had a meltdown when their vision was ruined due to local restrictions.


Also, before I forget, here is a Juggalo themed wedding.

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Gotta admit- this bunch looked happy as heck
 
Not sure if it goes here or not, I know I MAY have mentioned it in the Lori Lewd thread but proposals during anime masquerades (AKA the performance competition) or conventions is just really weird?

I've competed a few times (even if I suck I just enjoy doing it for fun) for maybe 3 years in a row, and EACH YEAR someone has popped the question in front of like maybe 500-700 cosplayers in a room.
Or if somebody wasn't getting married, they did this WHILE THE JUDGES THINK, LET'S WATCH A JAPANESE WEDDING CEREMONY.
It wasn't anything like a real one as far as I knew, but it felt like such a cringe ass way to pass the time.
Oh yes! Proposals can totally be talked about here. I have also been to cons back in my weeb days and have seen this a lot too. It is annoying because well, it is like a contest. Why don't they do it afterwards or arrange something with the organizers to do it if they really want to propose.

I will say though, public proposals have a really bad chance of backfiring if you aren't sure that is what they want. First of all, you don't know if the person being proposed to will want to be the center of attention or maybe feel pressured to say yes and if they reject the proposal, well, you just embarrassed yourself and made your girlfriend (or boyfriend) uncomfortable. (I am so glad I had a nice private at-home proposal)

Also, proposals probably shouldn't be a total surprise, you should have at least talked about marriage seriously beforehand, the person being proposed to doesn't have to know the exact date or place, but they should know at least that it is coming up sometime.
 
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